Improvement in suspenders



PATENT OFFICE. c

ALBERT W. UPTON, OF LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN SUSPENDERSM.

Specification forming part of' Letters Patent N0. 47,348, dated April 18, 1865.

To @ZZ whom i may concern:

Be it known that l, ALBERT W. UPTON, of Lowell, in the county ot' Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, having invented-a new and useful Improvement in Pantaloon-Suspenders and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the` following specification and represented in the following specification and represented in the accompanying draw- 1n g'.

The main novel feature of this suspender, by which it may be distinguished from others in use, consists in the union of two shoulderstraps with the two .back buttoningstraps.

In the drawing, the two shoulder-straps are shown at c a as connected together and to the elastic dorsal-strap b by a connection, c, which is composed of one or more pieces of leather sewed to each of the said straps a a b. The lower end of the elastic dorsal-strap terminates in a leather loop, d, from which a ring, e, is suspended. The two back buttoning-straps, f f, are hung from the said ring. The two front buttoning straps of each suspender-strap are shown at g g :1s-depending from a ring, la, supported by a hook, 7c, from a buckle, z', through which the shoulder-strap is and connected to the button-straps by meansv of a metellio bow or double eye and a simple inelastic band `or strip of leather.

I claim- The improved Suspenders, as made with the single elastic dorsal-strap b, arranged and combined with the shoulder and back buttonlng-straps, substantially in manner and by means as specied, andas represented.

ALBERT W. UPTON. YVitnesses:

G. F. RICHARDSON, E. O. BLAKE. 

